I would really appreciate help in picking the games for the next few weeks. My schedule will be very difficult throughout January. I was hoping that Cardinal would return by now but no news so far. If 3 people could each pick a week it would help me out quite a bit. Just take your favorite week, 10 (January 13-19), 11 (January 20-26) or 12 (January 27 - February 2) before someone else takes it. It's really a lot of fun. (This is known as a Huck Finn sales pitch). I'll be able to keep up with the scoring as I can do that Saturday night or Sunday morning.

The week 9 games are spread among 9 different conferences, with no more than 3 games from any one. More than half of the games are on Sunday so please make sure to get your picks in by Saturday night.

I would really appreciate help in picking the games for the next few weeks. My schedule will be very difficult throughout January. I was hoping that Cardinal would return by now but no news so far. If 3 people could each pick a week it would help me out quite a bit. Just take your favorite week, 10 (January 13-19)

Week 8 is in the books, sort of, and not a moment too soon. I say sort of because the Drexel - William & Mary game was postponed until Tuesday, January 9. I will include the results of that game with the week 9 results rather than leaving this week open. This was the toughest week of the season, certainly for me, but for the second week in a row Pilight took top honors by correctly picking 13 of the 19 games. Pilight has now climbed into a tie for last among players who have played every week. Come on Howee, we can't have you falling into last again. One more request for someone to choose the games for week 12.

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Come on Howee, we can't have you falling into last again. One more request for someone to choose the games for week 12.

You're right....we CAN'T have that. (If I take week 12, can I get some bonus points?? :shock: :P )

I will--bonus points or not--do week 12 if no one else claims it. 8)

Since Myrtle picked the games for week 4 and will be picking week 11 you can have weeks 10 and 12, unless someone who hasn't picked a week would like to volunteer. Please post the games on Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.

I'm out of the game. I was late and today's games were 12 of the 20 games.

Good luck to all.

I'd very much like you to stay in the game. Don't worry about this week (or just pick the remaining games), but consider playing the rest of the season. That is actually why I started putting in the average wins per week played on the weekly standings. As the defending champion it would be a shame if you didn't finish out the season.

Please note that the first few games DO still begin on Jan 13: They represent compelling clashes between schools that deserve even Myrtle's analysis and meticulous scrutiny. And yours, too. May the force be with you all in your contemplative efforts:

I was going to make a snarky comment about how it makes sense that Howee would give us so many matchups between losing teams because he feels more at home with those schools, but then I noticed a problem which, unfortunately, is due to a mistake I made. When I first asked for help on choosing games I somehow put down the wrong dates. The dates should have been from January 14-20, which would be Sunday to Saturday, but I screwed up. As a result he has included Oklahoma St - Kansas St which is already included in the Week 9 games. I will leave it to Howee whether he would like to just replace that game or to replace all of the games on Saturday 1/13, but in either case make extra clear which day of the week the games start so that people know when picks have to be in by.

Once again my apologies to Howee and to all the players for my mistake. I'm glad that Howee posted the games today so that it could be corrected before anybody made their picks.

Iona
Sam Houston State
Texas Tech
Navy
St. Johns
American
Auburn
Oregon
Maine
Florida A&M
Vanderbilt
Oklahoma St
Oklahoma
South Alabama
Pepperdine
Washington St
Oregon St
Oklahoma
Michigan St.
Buffalo
With only ONE exception, I decided to buy into summertimeblues' *theory*. We shall see if it pays off or not....
Edit (1/20):
Well, Pffft! On stb's theory! I decided to try the "homecooking" theory, and except for ONE game (Oklahoma's of course) I picked all the home teams to win. NOT a competitive plan! LOL!

It's really sad to see all these teams with 0-4 wins that Howee managed to find. It must be really disheartening to play when you never win.
Iona (they have to win one sometime! and this looks to be as good as any)
Sam Houston State
Iowa State
Navy
Villanova
American
Arkansas
Oregon
Maine
Florida A&M
Kentucky
West Virginia
Oklahoma
South Alabama
Pacific
Washington St
Oregon
Oklahoma State
Michigan St.
Buffalo

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― Maya Angelou

_________________Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings—give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else!… Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

Week 9 was a matter of lucky 13. Because of the postponed Drexel - William & Mary game there were 21 games and 4 players had 13 games correct. Three games, all from the Big 10 were unanimously selected. Everyone correctly chose Ohio St over Michigan, but everyone was wrong with Michigan St over Minnesota and Rutgers over Purdue. Howee correctly selected both Alabama over LSU and Kansas St over Oklahoma St, the only player to pick either team. Because Linkster didn't play the week but had Drexel vs W&M I added 1 point to his total.

_________________Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings—give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else!… Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.

I'm just hearing "go, Incarnate, go" and something seems a bit off about it.

We incarnate, yes we do
We incarnate, how 'bout you?

_________________Is the relinquishment of the trial by jury and the liberty of the press necessary for your liberty? Will the abandonment of your most sacred rights tend to the security of your liberty? Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings—give us that precious jewel, and you may take every thing else!… Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect every one who approaches that jewel.